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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
May. 29, 2014
Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Bruno Patrice-Bernard Lequesne, Menomonee Falls, WI (US);
Yakov Lvovich Familiant, Brown Deer, WI (US);
Qiang Fu, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Vijay Bhavaraju, Germantown, WI (US);
Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
A system and method for controlling switching in an AC-AC converter is disclosed. A controller for the AC-AC converter determines a direction of current flow on supply lines that provide AC power to the AC-AC converter and determines a switching pattern for each of a plurality of line-side switches and each of a plurality of floating-neutral side switches in the AC-AC converter based on the determined direction of current flow on each of the supply lines. The controller causes the line-side switches and the floating-neutral side switches to operate in an ON or OFF condition according to the determined switching pattern, such that a controlled current flow is output from the AC-AC converter. The controller also implements a safe-switching routine when transitioning from a first switching pattern to a second switching pattern that prevents a non-zero current from being interrupted during the transitioning between the first and second switching patterns.